Today's Job News: Unemployment Is UP, OpenAI Announces Jobs Platform, Amazon Having Hard Time Hiring

In today's episode of Cornering the Job Market, Pete discusses the August employment numbers released this morning by the BLS, OpenAI's new jobs platform that's coming in 2026, an Amazon memo that indicates they are having trouble recruiting AI talent, and why Gen Z is ditching office jobs for insurance and real estate. News Articles:1. Employment Situation Summary: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm2. OpenAI blog: https://openai.com/index/expanding-economic-opportunity-with-ai/3. TechCrunch on OpenAI's job platform taking on LinkedIn: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/openai-announces-ai-powered-hiring-platform-to-take-on-linkedin/4. Amazon's hiring woes: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-talent-wars-internal-document-2025-85. GenZ choosing insurance and real estate over office jobs: https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-real-estate-agents-insurance-carreer-trend-2025-8🧠 WANT TO LEARN MORE? Be sure to subscribe and check out 4 Corner Resources at https://www.4cornerresources.com/👋 FOLLOW PETE NEWSOME ONLINE:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petenewsome/Blog Articles: https://www.4cornerresources.com/blog/